POD by @savor_fm "Behind the Counter: Technology's Role in Restaurant Worker Success" w @JohnSPepper @boloco (that's me!) youtu.be/SGklRURJGq0?si=LvwC… via @YouTube

Councilor, with all due respect, this is a bad call. In 10 years we will look back at this and know that Yes on 5 was the only right answer. Great servers and restaurants will continue to do great. They know this. Poorly run restaurants may fail and will anyway. Do the right thing for all workers and the industry and let’s get this passed. Restaurants have 5 years to adjust to the proposed wages plus tips. They do many harder things than this. YES on 5 🙏

Americans with net worth in the top 2% would feel like they had been stricken with abject poverty if they walked in the shoes of too many millions of hard-working, underpaid, hourly workers. They would literally consider jumping out of windows as people did as the Great Depression settled in. And yet this is normal life for most people in this country. #fightfor15 was a good start - despite the fact that national minimum wage is still pegged at $7.25 since 2009. But years ago I grabbed the domain fightfor20.com because I knew that $20 was the more appropriate minimum hourly wage. You think $20/hour sounds high? Go visit friends who make that wage and take a close look at their lives. (Wait, you don't have any close friends who make that? You're not alone) Yes, it's harder to make a profit in many businesses when you pay higher wages. Yes, in some cases it might lead businesses to fail. But you are fooling yourself - and the countless people who send accolades your way - if you think you run a successful business when your front-line people aren't successful themselves. I'm renewing my #fightfor20 domain if for no other reason than a reminder that we have work to do.

You know you’re fu@ked when you are listening to @hubermanlab and @davidgoggins and you can’t help but stop at the McDonald’s drive-through in the middle of the podcast for my “last” sausage McMuffin with egg and hashbrowns. 😭 open.spotify.com/episode/7KU…

Nearly all my time spent in New England as a @Patriots fan was w @TomBrady at the helm. In early years he was a customer of @boloco on Newbury St too. There was nothing better than being a Pats fan in the 2000s-2010s. Never boring. Always hopeful. A time never to be forgotten 🙌🏼

Hanging with the Boston @boloco leadership team… Edwin, Sandra, Cecy, Ana and Paulina average 12 years with the company. These are the kindest, most dedicated managers in the industry. I’m the lucky one 🙏

When I was trying to be great at both (parent + founder) I don’t think I was good at either. Learning to be truly present in either circumstance - compartmentalizing, letting go of the other in the moment - has been helpful. Had to unlearn really bad habits - still wip

The Big Mac is back…at least on the app. Pretty amazing stat - nearly 3x Starbucks downloads.

This was a fun one. Favorite question: How do we capture the hearts and minds of the people who work on the frontline? Not easy. Not formulaic. Hard to scale. Unable to be automated. Requires the skills only humans have (at least for the time being) 🤙🏼

Just read for the first time the term "non-extractive finance" to describe an "alternative financial system that seeks to halt extraction from the many for the benefit of the few”. Some day I hope this becomes the mainstream financial system. via @workingworldorg